Written by Gardner Stern and Chuck Rose, the drama explores the underbelly — and surprisingly cutthroat world — of premium auction houses, filled with hustlers, smugglers, power mongers and collectors of the beautiful and the bizarre. Elwes, repped by APA, LINK and Felker Toczek, will play Arthur Davenport, a shrewd and eccentric world-class collector of art and illegal antiquities who mentors Graham Connor (Cooke).

Production on the series starts this week in Montreal. It’s slated to premiere in winter 2015 on the digital network.